Will Mac Support Blu-ray in the Future?

Diana Joan

Aug 30, 2016 03:42 am / Posted by Diana Joan | Categories: Blu-ray

Out of the box, your Mac can do almost anything, but playing Blu-ray movies isn’t one of them. Not only do Macs not ship with Blu-ray playback software built in, but Apple still doesn’t make a drive capable of reading Blu-ray discs. Why Macs never support Blu-ray? With more and more people using Macs, the question is asked often. Will Mac get Blu-ray in the future? The answer is NO.

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Why Macs Never Support Blu-ray? 

Since HD-DVDs have been officially discontinued, the disappointment will soon turn into frustration. In 2008, Mr. Steves said that licensing was the main issue keeping Blu-ray away from Mac. Apparently, they didn’t want their customers to pay more for a drive they would hardly use. However, the licensing and cost issue was soon resolved, yet Apple showed no sign of Blu-ray support.

Later on, when Mac book Air was released without any optical drive, most people took it as a bad omen. There are many people who think that apple is shunning the concept of optical drive altogether and this indicates that there are clearly no chances of Blu-ray support for Mac in the future.

Aside from any technical issues Apple may have, ditching discs makes business sense for the fruit-flavoured Californian company. Apple doesn’t make any money when you watch a film on a disc, but, because it sells movies as downloads in the iTunes Store, it does create an opportunity to make money when it drives you away from discs.

If you can’t stick a Blu-ray or DVD in your new Apple computer, you might download the film from iTunes instead. More money for Apple’s coffers, but not so great if you have a large collection of DVDs. Learn >> Blu-ray vs HD DVD

How to Play Blu-ray on Mac?

Fortunately, with a little inexpensive hardware and software, you can turn your Mac into an awesome Blu-ray player.To play Blu-ray movies on your Mac, you’ll first need a drive that can read the discs. Apple’s SuperDrive won’t do it, but there are plenty of good third-party options that’ll do the job. There are plenty of compact, affordable choices for this in the sub-$50 range that connect via USB. With a Blu-ray drive connected to your Mac, all you need is an app to rip and play the Blu-ray movies. Pavtube ByteCopy for Mac brings powerful Blu-ray features to the Mac. Read >> Best Blu-ray Ripper for Mac (macOS Sierra)

With Pavtube ByteCopy for Mac installed, just insert a Blu-ray disc and browse to your Blu-ray movies to get started. With the movie loaded, you can view the Blu-ray movies in the right window regardless of Blu-ray codecs and encryption, or use the app’s built-in navigation panel to choose chapters to view, select your audio settings, and enable subtitles.

This Blu-ray ripping tool is not only for Blu-ray playback, its main function is to rip and extract Blu-ray content off physical disc so that you can use Mac default media player QuickTime to watch Blu-ray movies. It rips VC-1 and AVC Blu-ray by decrypting Blu-ray protection scheme inlcuding BD+, UOP, AACS up to MKB v61.

It can convert Blu-ray to MOV for QuickTime streaming. And it also rips Blu-ray to multi-track MOV with multiple subtitle and audio tracks preserving. As we all known, in the Blu-ray specification, Dolby TrueHD, DTS-MA, LPCM, Dolby Digital, DTS and PCM are optional codecs for Blu-ray audio encoding. Pavtube ByteCopy for Mac supports to rip Blu-ray with Dolby Digital 5.1/Dolby TrueHD 7.1 audio. If you have VLC or other media players which can play MKV files on Mac, the best choice is to re-encode Blu-ray to MKV in lossless video and audio quality, keeping all subtitle, audio tracks and chapter makers. Then you can switch any streaming when watch Blu-ray movies on Mac.

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Rip Blu-ray to Watch on Mac

Step 1. Load Blu-ray movie

Insert your purchased Blu-ray disc into the disc drive, and run Mac Blu-ray ripper on your computer. Click “File” > “Load from disc” to realize Blu-ray movie loading work. Batch conversion supported allows you import more than one Blu-ray movies to rip.

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Step 2: Choose output format

Navigate to “Format’ > “Common Video” > “MOV – QuickTime(*.mov)”. To play Blu-ray via iTunes, you also can choose multi-track MOV and multi-track MP4 from multi-track video profile.

Step 3: Click “Settings” to open a new window. Here has subtitle, audio, video settings selection. Turn to Subtitle page, here will shows the subtitle streaming your Blu-ray has. Uncheck the streaming you don’t want. Then turn to Audio choices. Check all the audio tracks you want. In Video settings window, you also can change video size, codec. 

Step 4: Start to rip Blu-ray on Mac

Hit the big “Convert” button, it will start converting Blu-ray movies with optional subtitle and audio tracks on Mac. This process will cost some time depending on the original Blu-ray size, you computer configuration, network speed.  

After the Blu-ray ripping, you can play Blu-ray on Mac with video player for Mac. Since Apple products support the same video format, the Blu-ray MOV or MP4 backups also can be played on iPhone 7, iPad Pro, Apple TV 4, etc. So you can sync Blu-ray rips to iTunes for any iOS devices playing.

Tips and Tricks: Best 5 Video Players for Mac

VLC is a fast video player that plays just about any media file you can throw at it. That’s really all you need to know. If you want to play a movie, you drop it in VLC and it’ll be playing in seconds. It has a playlist feature if you want to play multiple files. You can adjust the image to brighten it up, crop it, or do pretty much whatever you need to make it work best on your computer. While VLC is a complex application, when it comes to video playback there’s really nothing that handles the task quite as well.

MPlayerX has long been the main competitor to VLC and it’s a very good video player. The main downside is that it can get pretty laggy and out of sync with video when it can’t keep up for one reason or another. It has a great interface that’s very similar to Quicktime Player X and is very easy to use, but sometimes falters in its main task: playing video.

Movist is like the hybrid child of VLC and MPlayerX, which makes it a very attractive option. It makes for a great video player in theory, but in our experience its been a bit slower and buggier than other options. We do hope that through Movist’s development it continues to improve and can one day trump VLC.

Perian and Quicktime Player is the simplest combination you can use. Quicktime Player is really a very good, simple movie player and Perian adds support for pretty much every media file VLC can handle. The major downside is that Perian needs to buffer the file before it can play it. When you play something in VLC, it just plays. Nonetheless, if you really like Quicktime Player but need wider format support, this is the way to go.

Elmedia Player is a free media player for Mac. It supports numerous video and audio formats: FLV, SWF, MP4, MP3, AVI, MOV, DAT, etc. The app has its native web browser letting you watch online videos directly from the app. Another option – Open URL – spares you from noisy ads. Elmedia has a lot of features that can significantly enhance your viewing experience: video aspect ratio setting to fit image to screen, 10-band equalizer to shape the audio tone, video tuner to tune the video quality, playback speed adjustment.

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